Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Stoplight as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Senior Software Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Senior Software Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
2 technical interviews, both very focused and straight to the point. There were no specific knowledge or trivia questions. Instead, the discussions were centered around real problems and how I would approach solving them. I really liked this format, as it felt practical and closer to actual work rather than theoretical knowledge.
Great experience! Technical portion wasn’t too difficult, but not extremely easy, either. I felt like most of the time the company just wanted to get to know me as a person, not just if I could deliver code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you weren’t a software engineer, what other passions do you have?
The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Stoplight
Interview
Had initial call with CTO, seemed nice enough and then he moved me on to a 4 hour round of interviews with various teams.
Engineering interviewer seemed like he was doing other things while having the conversation, seemed scattered and couldn’t communicate questions well, then this led to confusing line of conversation which couldn’t have been in any way productive in actually assessing me for the position.
Product team interview was a joke. This team appeared to be messaging each other back and forth and laughing rather than actually being engaged in the interview. Seemed overly full of themselves with no real meaningful conversation around the role or what I could bring to the table. Basically seemed like they were uninterested in actually hiring for the role before the conversation even began.
Design conversation went well and the team member I spoke to there was very polite and engaged in our conversation.
After the conversation was over I sent a follow up to my contact and never heard back. Wanting to close the loop on it I emailed and then finally got the answer I knew was coming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing of value really, whole experience was awful.